Research & Scholarship Committee

The Research & Scholarship Committee leads ACSA’s efforts to support faculty in scholarly endeavors. The committee monitors and assesses ACSA programs involving peer review and recognition, and recommends actions to advocate for support for architectural research and scholarship.

Mara Marcu

Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Traci Rider

Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Ian Caine

Associate Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Timothy Adekunle

Associate Professor
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Eric Wayne Ellis

Senior Director of Operations and Programs
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Washington, DC

June Williamson

Professor
City College of New York 
New York, NY

Corey T. Griffin

Associate Dean for Research & Associate Professor of Architecture
Pennsylvania State University
Altoona, PA

2025-2026 Research & Scholarship Committee

Specific Charge

The Research & Scholarship Committee is charged with leading ACSA’s efforts to support faculty in scholarly endeavors; monitoring and assessing peer-review and recognition programs and recommending actions to advocate for architectural scholarship.

In 2025-26, the Research + Scholarship Committee will continue to work on advancing scholarship by supporting the Academy for Public Scholarship in the Built Environment with the aim of developing our members’ capacity to disseminate the products of their work (a member resource focused on professional development). The committee will also focus on developing resources and programming to help faculty with identifying funding sources, relationship-building with grantors, grant-writing, and collaboration (changing external support/resource landscape is a factor that will impact our membership).

Deliverables will include a new cohort of Academy participants, webinars in the fall and winter, sessions at the Administrators Conference and Annual Meeting, and a written report at the end of the year.